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PostPosted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:59 am    Post subject: Watchmen Reply with quote

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The effect of this credit sequence can't be overstated: It presents, in fictionalized form, the mid to late 20th century as an endless slog of wars, assassinations and mass deceptions. Within minutes, the viewer has been infused with a sense of life on earth as chaotic and hopeless.


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The appeal of "Watchmen" is really about something else - the sight of a blimp passing by the twin towers, as seen from an office window. It's about the uneasiness we feel when we see those towers resurrected in an alternate universe. Part conscious and part unconscious, "Watchmen" tells us of a world without hope and then makes us wonder if we're already living in it.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 6:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I re-read the complete work, for the first time since, well, it's been decades since I first read it. I found the book as powerful and affective as I did then, if not more so, simply because as I'm older, I'm more aware of the nature of the world than I was then. It many ways, the choosing of the surface subject matter (which is different from the deeper, actual subject matter) was a product of the time in which it was written, but that, I think, can be overlooked or enjoyed the same way one can do so when reading Romeo and Juliet, or watching West Side Story, or perusing a more modern treatment of what is, essentially, the same story.

I hope the movie does it justice.
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